“The year of our common decision, a common judgement, will be 2026, in which the main question is not who should govern, but how we want to live,” said Péter Magyar, president of the Tisza Party, in his New Year’s speech broadcast on Thursday on his Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Poverty and corruption
According to the opposition politician, this year’s election will not be a competition between parties, but “a cheerful, peaceful, yet fateful referendum on whether we want to continue living in a dysfunctional homeland or finally in a functioning country”.
He described it as a referendum on the future of the abandoned Hungarian countryside; a referendum on whether Hungary should remain Europe’s poorest and most corrupt country, or whether it should once again become a strong bastion of the old continent; a referendum on EU funds that are due to Hungary but which the current leadership has taken away; and a referendum on whether people want to live in Orbán’s Hungary or in a humane homeland.
“In short, it is a referendum on the future, a referendum on Hungary,” he added Hungarian News Agency.
Check out the full speech below:
The state should be an ally, not an enemy
Péter Magyar said that change is necessary, because there cannot be a leader whose first priority is not the well-being of Hungarian children; who does nothing for years while knowing that thousands of children are being abused; who is unable to take responsibility; who represents only the smaller half of the nation; who betrays Hungarian communities in Slovakia, Transylvania or Transcarpathia when it suits him; for whom eradicating poverty is not a priority, but enriching his own family is; and above all, there cannot be a leader who does not obey the law.
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“Many said that change is impossible. They said that the power is too strong. But they forgot the most important thing: a proud nation with 1,100 years of history cannot be defeated. By dawn in 2026, everyone will know that we are the majority — the majority in cities and small settlements, on farms and even in dead-end villages,” he stressed.
The party president emphasised that the referendum will only succeed if it is not about anger, revenge or victory for its own sake, but about shared hope — about “wanting a country where the state is not an enemy, but an ally”.
The Tisza is ready to govern
“Everyone can see that the current leadership has failed and has lost the trust of the people,” Magyar said, adding that those in power also sense that the end is near, as they have long been unable to change or to curb arrogance, incitement and boastfulness.
He said that Viktor Orbán’s circle has become Labancs in the land of the Kurucs, Döbrögis in the homeland of Lúdas Matyi, and that what was once “God, homeland, family” has turned into luxury, betrayal and dynasty-building.
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“Just as their ignominious predecessors did, they too will leave. Perhaps far away. But before they go, the mafia should know that Inspector Cattani is returning, and we will do everything to ensure that this time he triumphs over the criminals,” he said, promising that order, peace and legal certainty, respect for work and knowledge, and accountability for crime will once again prevail in Saint Stephen’s homeland.
The party president stressed that the Tisza Party is ready to govern, with a real programme, excellent candidates, a political community of tens of thousands, commitment, and majority support.
Young Hungarians should not be forced to emigrate
“Hungarian history is not written in Washington or Moscow, but at home — on Hungarian streets and squares; not with hatred and blood, but with love and heart; not online with digital warriors, but in reality with flesh-and-blood Hungarians. In short, by all of us together,” he said.
Magyar noted that he has been travelling across the country for a year and a half, visiting 300 settlements in 2025 alone. He said he sees clearly what people want and what is missing for the revival of neglected rural Hungary.
To prevent villages from emptying and young people from leaving, he said Hungary needs passable roads, functioning rail transport, affordable housing, real public safety, accessible GPs and paediatricians, working hospitals, and real jobs that provide a decent living.
Zero guest workers under a Tisza government
Magyar announced that a Tisza-led government would stand by Hungarian people and Hungarian companies and, from 1 June 2026 until further notice, would permit zero importation of non-Hungarian guest workers from outside the European Union.
He added that their plans include reducing personal income tax and VAT, delivering a noticeable pension increase, developing state healthcare and education, and strengthening family support.
The party would introduce a 100,000-forint school-start grant for around 700,000 families, double child benefit, immediately halt further national debt, curb inflation, restart economic growth, and seek authorisation to stop corruption, hate-mongering and large-scale looting, while strengthening Hungary’s EU membership.
Staying out of war
Magyar warned that anyone — whether a president, secret service agent or constitutional judge — who acts against the will of the Hungarian people or participates in a constitutional coup would face the gravest consequences, as would those who attempt to disrupt elections through panic-mongering, sabotage, self-immolation, drone activity or falsified footage.
He emphasised that Hungary and all Hungarians need peace.
“There is national unity on this. Hungary must stay out of every war. Full stop. There will be no war and no conscription under a Tisza government. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying,” he said.
He concluded by saying that the coming months would not be easy and that the dirtiest campaign since the change of regime lies ahead, but that 2026 will be the year of hope, the realisation of the Hungarian dream, and the year of decision.
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‘Péter Magyar would kick every guest worker out of Hungary if his party wins in April…’
I think I react to this as will the overwhelming majority of Hungarian smalltowners and Rednecks.
And that reaction?
Maybe he would do this, but, in time, he will give in to EU demands that he start importing bushels and bushels of Africans and Arabs.
The result would be less than a zero sum gain.
That said, this is a smart move by Magyar, because, if he can convince enough Rural and Smalltowen Hungarians that he will preserve the traditional Hungarian ethnostate, (sprinkled with Gypsies, Jews, Jaszi, Germans and Serbs) he could win.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again : Magyar’s only chance to win is to talk to Hungarian Rednecks and convince enough of them that he will not make Hungary an Islamic Homosexual Hell.
So far Magyar has not done that, because he prefers to stay on issues that only speak to those who will not be voting for Fidesz and Mi Hazánk : economy and corruption.
Magyar has to bear down on this issue, as well as a commitment to rebuff the EU at every turn, if they get out of line – and they are out of line.
This is how most Rednecks and Smalltowners, everywhere, think – race and faith first, economy after.
If I were Magyar, I would be seen attending church at every smalltown and general store – talking about how to preserve the Hungarian Race, preserve Hungarian lands, and customs.
Those words – those subjects and those exact words, every day all day.
He still has time to make this case.
He must show the Redneck that Orbán is not serious about preserving The Hungarian Race.
No other tactic will win.
@mouton – FT proverbial F is this whole “Hungarian ethnostate” nonsense. Then the “our-women-will-be-raped-by-foreigers” line… Emotional blackmail dressed up as realism.
You pretend Hungary can only be safe and sovereign if it’s ethnically “pure” and permanently scared of outsiders. However, I would argue REAL sovereignty is about robust institutions, the rule of law, functioning borders and basic rights for everyone. Not about fantasizing that whoever’s convenient is a contaminant in need of containment.
It really does not matter what I think, Dear Norbert – as I will not be voting in Hungarian elections.
I have been studying Hungarian every days for 6 years, and I listen, and understand, your language pretty well now.
Beyond any shadow of a doubt I know that many people in your country think along the lines I have outlined here.
If they did not think this way, Orban would not have made Immigration his number one issue.
When Magyar loses this election, a big reason will be because many Hungarians, who like numerous things about his plank, do not trust him on immigration.
You may not be sympathetic to racial motivations, but, way more than half of Hungarians are, as are White Southerners.
As to institutions being robust, as real sovereignty, this is how a Hungarian Leftist thinks.
Hungarians who are not Leftists, however, think that having robust institutions is only part of ‘real sovereignty.
When I listen to them be interviewed on smalltown streets, many of them seem to think Orban has done a better job about the borders than Magyar would.
This is the main reason why Magyar is on track to lose.
Hungarian Leftists, even very smart and thoughtful ones like you, repeatedly mistake how important the issue of tribality and race are for many of your countrymen.
Until you stop making this mistake, you will be in the non-governing minority.
Man, what a word salad this guy produces. I think I’ll call him Kamala Magyar from now on. He doesn’t have her obnoxious cackle but everything else fits perfectly.
As Mouton said, whether he’s serious about “kicking out” these LEGAL immigrants who actually work and contribute to the Hungarian economy or not, he would definitely sign Hungary up to E.U.’s migration diktat and flood us with third-world illegal alien garbage, who’d proceed to rape, rob, stab, and bleed us dry. That’s for certain. He has not denied it and it’s plain as day that he’d not have the backbone to stand up to what are basically his sponsors anyway.
This guy is slimier than even Karacsony, and that’s saying something!
Thank you for the affirmation, Dear Michael.
Concerning Magyar’s ‘Word salad’ … I find it interesting that you said it, because i was thinking that Bill Clinton, a truly great political speaker, would have given this entire speech in 3 minutes.
I watched this debacle in the last election.
The Left had a fantastic candidate – Marki-Zay, and he was so mismanaged that he wound up looking like a sympathetic boob and got trounced by Orban.
Magyar’s campaign manager is an ever worse ninny – because Magyar got off to a great start, had a massive lead, and all the momentum!
Now, Magyar is behind and desperately scrambling to get back into the race.
This video speech is an improvement, but, it is clear that Magyar’s campaign staff still does not quite comprehend how an election can be won in Hungary.
Orban does comprehend it, which is why, even though he never thinks about Hungarian agriculture, when not campaigning, he wins the agricultural areas by large margins.
Magyar has to cut into Orban’s lead in these areas, and it can only be done in the manner I outlined above.
Happy New Year!
Oh, Michael Steiner, our resident soothsayer of doom. He’s taken Magyar’s proposal about guest workers and spun it into a feature-length fantasy of crime and societal collapse that not even the EU’s best screenwriters could concoct. His mind must be a truly exhausting place, where every policy debate ends with a shadowy, third-world “simian” lurking just outside his gleaming, tax-funded hospital. It’s a special talent, really—starting with a fact and breathing pure, unfiltered nonsense onto it until it becomes unrecognizable. Let’s call his ideology “Breathless Fiction.”
I have to add, on a broader point.
Supposed “poverty,” supposed “corruption,” public education, public healthcare, infrastructure, and so forth and so on… – none of it matters if your borders are undefended and you cease being a sovereign state. What’s the use of having spanking buses and gleaming hospitals if you can’t leave your home without fear of being violated by some third-world simian who has no business being in your country or if you are forced to pay more taxes to finance every aspect of his life?!?!
“Supposed “poverty,” supposed “corruption,” public education, public healthcare, infrastructure, and so forth and so on – none of it matters if your borders are undefended and you cease being a sovereign state.’
There you go, Dear Michael – you ought be Magyar’s campaign manager, because your intellectual acumen and common sense make plain to you what every Leftist campaign manager ought know.
And yet : they don’t know that it makes no sense to make a good pension and drink clean municipal water, if your daughters, wives, sisters, aunts, and nieces cannot leave the house for fear of being raped!
This is what is wrong with The Modern Left – they are very unserious people.
@mouton – can I just call you out on using scare tactics? Pretend everyone’s daughter / sister / mother is about to be raped by foreigners, so people stop thinking and just react?
You know I like facts and data. So. Where is this happening, now? Could you cite the actual crime statistics – and data comparing rape by immigrants versus citizens? I bet you can’t…
If we actually care about stopping rape, we should perhaps look at domestic violence, assault by partners or family, or systemic failures in justice (Sweden’s high rape statistics are a result of addressing just this). It is altogether too easy to demonize some outsiders, don’t you think?
Lastly – we can care about borders and healthcare and pensions. Politicians should not get a free pass on everything by yelling “Borders!”.
‘Lastly – we can care about borders and healthcare and pensions.’
That’s not my point, Dear Norbert.
My point is that, even if you have wealth, robust pensions and institutions, it is all for naught – if many citizens
I speak German well, lived there, and I follow them nearly so much as I do your country.
If you listen to them, they no longer feel comfortable in their towns, and their depression about this has them so depressed their pensions no longer seem so important.
“Politicians should not get a free pass on everything by yelling “Borders!”.
That is subjunctive grammar, Dear Norbert – namely, what you think ought be.
The reality, however, is that the scream about borders works for politicians, everywhere, because it is a very serious issue for people.
“If we actually care about stopping rape, we should perhaps look at domestic violence, assault by partners or family, or systemic failures in justice (Sweden’s high rape statistics are a result of addressing just this). It is altogether too easy to demonize some outsiders, don’t you think?
This is why The Hungarian Left cannot win the major elections – because you, just as The Leftists in my country, always suggest that the real problems rest with the White Majority. NOT the non-White minorities.
The Reality, and the statistics of that, do not support your view.
Nothing more perfectly indicative of having blood strangers into your house than Sweden.
Not so long ago, Sweden was a country so stable and safe the main complaint Swedes seemed to have was that life was a bit boring.
Boring no longer, as many neighbourhoods, non-Swedish neighbourhoods, are no longer enterable.
Currently the Swedish government is attempting to beg and bribe the immigrants to go back home, but, it does not seem to be making much progress.
The Swedes are now faced with an unenvious choice – act like those mid-20th century fascists they say they do not like, or live with a group of people with whom they feel no sympathy.
My guess is that in the end, they will choose to act like those mid-20th century fascists they say they do not like.
But, I could be wrong – they might choose to lose their country.
Ah, Michael and AI Mouton having a private chat about “the Hungarian Race” and “Islamic Homosexual Hells” — the most sane and grounded political discussion in the comments section. It’s like watching a rehearsed play where they feed each other the same lines, desperately hoping their echo chamber will sound like a majority. A perfectly synchronized duet of fear and nonsense.
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If western business climates were so great, then companies like Bosch would not LITERALLY close their factories in Germany to open a new one in Hungary. Hungary has an unprecedented new factory boom that has not been seen. The new Debrecen battery factory is the envy of countries as far away as Canada. They literally have written about it. People are literally jealous of the number and the size of factories opening in Hungary. You people can’t be this simple minded, can you?? If you import the policies that many of these factories are running away from, then they will run away from Hungary and YES indeed there will be NO need for guestworkers, because the factories will have left. Hungary has the LOWEST energy prices in the EU. Wake up people, you can’t be this simple minded. Western policies will SHUT the doors of the factories overnight. Why do you think they are leaving Germany to go to Hungary??? No, it’s not the food, the weather, or the kindness of the left and the whiners. It is because of the policies of the Government of HUNGARY. Wake up people!
As far as Canada and probably further people are talking about Hungary and the lead in technology and production:
https://www.greatersudbury.ca/city-hall/news-and-public-notices/2025/greater-sudbury-welcomes-delegation-from-the-consulate-general-of-hungary/
Companies LITERALLY outsource production to Hungary due to cheap labor and easy access to EU market. Hungarians are left with simple factory jobs unless imported labor take even those for even cheaper salaries. R&D happens elsewhere. So for the youth, situation is not good. Intelligent youth have to find career outside Hungary since here we have just the production. Innovations and research happens elsewhere. Wake up old generation Hungarians. Our most intelligent youth is leaving the country to find better opportunities elsewhere. And good for them to do so as long as Fidesz is ruling.
I came here to write exactly what you’ve written. To read into manufacturing moving to Hungary as anything other than salary arbitrage is mistaken. The jobs are overwhelmingly low value added production line jobs where the economics of paying western wages don’t stack up. Hungary offers major financial incentives and tax breaks (not forgetting membership of the single market) to overcome the temptation to set up shop in Turkey, Serbia or China. A combination of low wages, tax breaks and outright financial incentives can serve to make investing in a factory in Hungary cheaper even than doing the same in China, factoring in the lack of import duty on the finished goods, lower transport costs and speed to market measured in days and not weeks or even months. Hungarian wages are not all that higher than China these days.
None of this would be possible without exceedingly low wages expressed in hard currency; this is the driver above all else. Hungary has, generally speaking, a well educated population but the majority of these new jobs demand little to no education, only a good work ethic and willingness to learn. Yes, production line specialists, quality control engineers, logistics experts, HR professionals et al also get work when these new factories open, but it’s not comparable to an operation like Skoda in Czechia where near enough the complete product development cycle runs from Mlada Boleslav, many of whose employees earn multiples of that of a production line operative. Critically, Skoda’s profits are not instantly exported to the parent company as in the case of an offshored production plant, a proportion will remain to reinvest in new products requiring high value added R&D and the employment of armies of skilled professionals that make it happen.
It’s one of the great missed opportunities of the 90s that the likes of Ikarus and Ganz failed to transition to producing modern products with high sales volumes while working under the aegis of foreign ownership. Today, Ikarus could be a self sufficient subsidiary of Mercedes, Ganz the same while owned by Alsthom and Hungary would look very different to how it does today. The lack of any successful national champions is acutely felt and means the country has to rely on whatever low paid work it can get. I cannot think of a single internationally successful Hungarian company which is a pity.
To all the foreigners trying to meddle in Hungarian politics, Why are you doing that?
We are not that dumb, we see through you. We know that you are either paid to meddle and you have accepted it as YOU have no other alternatives due to your lack of opportunities and skills, and/or that you are looking and ‘taking’ for your own interests only.
Just like all the companies moving away from the ‘west’, and moving to Hungary. It’s not because of the food, the weather, or the kindness of the left and the whiners. It is because of the policies of the Government of HUNGARY. Except the companies can admit it, while individuals can’t cope with reality that their country has failed them, and now they are involved in destruction abroad.
Show me one western country that has Research and Development moving to their turf. Just one. Where companies look up to the ‘education’ system, the policies, and the ‘talent’ of the west and are moving Research and Development there. What country? Just one that has many new jobs in Research and Development created. Not existing for decades and slowly (or not so slowly) moving away, but moving to???
You asked for an example, you got it: the UK attracts inward investment setting up design studios and engineering offices of foreign car manufacturers, including those of Chinese manufacturers. The country also hosts home-grown consultancies that sell these services to manufacturers abroad, their clients often small in scale but looking to grow. Largely every Formula 1 car is designed, engineered, built and tested in the UK in the proximity of the Silverstone race circuit irrespective of team.
In the field of car design and chassis engineering British talent is very strong.
‘Foreign car manufacturers’ in the UK. So how many people work in that field. I can bet you less than the research and development jobs that the Hungarian government has created for Hungary. Many of the new factories opening have research and development attached to it. What was the last large scale factory the UK opened?
The amount of jobs the HUNGARIAN government has created is unprecedented. If Hungary were to follow the policies of the countries these firms are leaving from, then the firms would move on.
German firms are not leaving Germany because they want the German work environment.
This is expressly not about factories (although since you ask, Toyota and Nissan both have factories in the UK). It’s about highly paid, high value added jobs undertaken in the fields of industrial design and engineering. Many manufacturers with no connection to the country have nevertheless chosen the UK to open an office specialising in these areas, feeding the results of their work back to their respective HQs abroad. The motivation is a legacy of excellence in vehicle design and engineering, local academic programmes tailored to feed graduates into these specialisms as well as the easy availability of a talented, international pool of labour that they can draw upon. The investment decision is not motivated by cost saving but by the quality of the outcome that they can generate, although cost is still part of the equation as even in central London you can employ people for considerably less than in the US or Germany these days. In total I would estimate some 20,000 R&D people work for these UK offices of foreign makers, for local producers (e.g. JLR, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin and Nissan), for UK run design and engineering consultancies like Ricardo, as well as the F1 teams. I’m not including people solely involved in assembly who in total will add many 10s of thousands but these are lower paid positions.
If you are going to call me an ‘old generation’, I am going to call you a whiner who has not passed Economics 101. You have no idea who I am.
Having factories does not limit and/or prohibit Research and Development. If you are soo smart create your Research and Development, the Government will fund it. The Government will fund it probably more than any in any EU country.
Stop constantly blaming the country and the government, create something. Go out and create something, NOBODY is stopping you.
But No, this constant whining how ‘I am the victim’ and if the Government was only better I would live like a ‘German’, that philosophy is a representation of not having passed any Economics 101 classes.
By the way look at all the research and development going on right now? Don’t think you are that smart, otherwise you would be in demand everywhere.
I posted above how a smaller city in Canada due to the current Hungarian Governments policies are expecting Hungary the second in the WORLD in battery manufacturing.
However the same smaller city has an article about Hungarians and their experience with the like. You know the like, the ones that always complained in Hungary how Hungary is soo bad and it’s the fault of the Government and that they are ‘too clever’ for Hungary, but once they leave they will ‘show’ the world how ‘clever’ they are.
The ones that have not passed Economics or reality check 101, but ‘take’ and whine.
The two men featured in the article below I put in the same category as the ‘Tisza’; aka: ‘We are here for our selves only’, ‘We don’t care about others or lying’, ‘ We just want to take’, but we will ‘present ourselves as the victims’.
Read the article below. While the left in Budapest may have different clothes and ‘take’ differently to ‘show’ the world how ‘smart’ they are, the ‘Tisza’ base fits into the same mold of character.
https://www.thesudburystar.com/news/hungarian-immigrants-from-toronto-came-to-sudbury-to-steal
Is their behaviour also the fault of the current Hungarian government???
They must have been just ‘too smart’ for Hungary and went to ‘show the world’ what they can do somewhere else. ‘Tisza supporters’.
If you are soo smart CREATE the Research and development and do something, but don’t ‘take’ and don’t whine.
Another aggressive Fidesz supporter or just a troll/propaganda account… why are you they always so aggressive? Try different tactics for a change.
I did not call you old generation. Read again.
So you found a news from Canada from summer 2024 about two Hungarians immigrants stealing scrap iron… and somehow in your mind you linked that to Tisza supporters???
“Government will fund it probably….” No it wont, government does not have money for it. In other EU countries businesses have the money for it and invest in research. Here businesses will not invest in R&D due to unpredictable business environment and lack of high quality staff because of brain drain.
Stop trying to steer discussion away from the topic by insulting other commenters with long rants.
Quite. In a well functioning economy R&D is driven by private enterprise. State sponsored R&D can and does have a role to play, particularly in the absence of a vibrant private sector. In Hungary you have neither.
This guy should win. Hungary has been kept behind and out of pace with the rest of the developed world for too long, and it’s just been sad to watch. The short term sale of Hungary’s future under Fidesz has been brazen, obvious , and has undermined the country’s economy, investment ratings and reputation. That would be just fine if everything was going well at home -but go into any grocery store in the country and look at the depressed faces. Literally everywhere else in Europe you feel is prospering and part of something bigger, but not Hungary. Something is missing, wrong, rotten, and this government is a big culprit.
Anybody arguing otherwise has their heads up their butts.
Magyar, Peter would kick out all the guest workers to make room for the Asians and Africans illegally in the European Union.
That being said, there should not be guest workers here in Hungary for work that Hungarians whom are unemployed qualify for.
Guest workers should not be used to keep wages depressed for Hungarians.
They should not but they do. In normal circumstances the country is self-sufficient in labour. Unfortunately, due to decades of outward migration, in particular affecting the young and talented, Hungary has a labour shortage. There is a surfeit of work in assembly line work in rural areas for which the labour shortage is particularly acute, hence the presence of imported workers.
I’m glad to see all the discussion about immigration. It’s an important issue, even when discussed only at the emotional level. But, I’d also like to see more discussion about how to stop emigration; especially by those running for office. Entirely too many of our youngest and brightest leave for the greener pastures of Canada, UK, US and EU countries. This problem is not new. It is no accident that the majority of Hungarian diaspora are not those living in areas lost to the Treaty of Trianon, but rather Hungarians fleeing political and economic hardship. I know of many personally. They didn’t leave because a treaty mandated they were no longer Hungarian. They didn’t leave because they hated Hungary. They left to flee very real economic and political hardships at home. We should find an answer to that, because those are the very reasons other desperate people violate our borders.